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High End 2014: Munich. Jason Kennedy braves the alpine-horns and bier-fests to
bring you the latest and greatest products from one of the world's largest
hi-fi shows...

38 GPOs: Australia Wins!

Ever wonder why Australia has the best, the safest, and the most useable 240V
mains power-points in the world? You'll be as surprised by the answer as Rod
Easdown was when he investigated!

76 Sound Travels

Tom Waters visits an audiophile who loves to listens to live music every week,
loves his music at home, and loves listening on vinyl—pretty much in that
order!

Equipment Reviews22 Bryston 28B SST² Power Amplifier

Feel the need for 2,000 watts per channel of power? Want the security of a
20-year parts and labour warranty? Look no further... these are the amps you
should buy!

32 YBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DAC

European sonic sensibilities matched with expert (and cost-effective) Chinese
engineering have delivered a unique CD player that's much more than just a CD
player!

40 Rotel RA-12 Integrated Amplifier

Fifty years on, Rotel once again proves it can build an amplifier that's not
only richly endowed with features—and more powerful than you might guess
from the specs—but also sounds excellent.

82 B&W CM10 Loudspeakers

Where Bowers & Wilkins leads, other loudspeaker manufacturers often follow...
but when it comes to the B&W CM10, that's going to be very unlikely, for
any number of important reasons.

88 Clearaudio Performance DC Turntable

If you're thinking about buying the Clearaudio Statement, why not save
yourself $183,000 and buy the Performance DC instead? Umm, actually, there's
no good reason...

Music96

Rock On

As Jez Ford is one of Led Zeppelin's greatest fans, this extended-length
review of the remastered versions of Led Zeppelin I, II, and III
may exhibit bias. Maybe you should read it and decide for yourself.

98

Super Fidelity

This issue, a super round-up of new releases on SACD, Pure Audio, Vinyl and
192/24, with artists including Colman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Eric Korngold,
Handel, Prokofiev and the elusive George Antheil.

100

Jazz Track

Reviewer John Shand knows that touch is what makes one player sound different
to another who's playing exactly the same instrument, and that it's this
difference in touch that a good hi-fi system will reveal, so he was overjoyed
to hear this fifth installment of 'Of Other Narratives'.

102

Blu-Ray Reviews

Grrr, released to commemorate the Rolling Stones' 50th Anniversary,
is now available in a new Pure Audio High-Res incarnation. And for something
completely different, how about the soundtrack to Muriel's Wedding, written by
umm...